Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth had a fairy tale-worthy wedding last March, but the way these two met was anything but!

While chatting with Elle for their February issue, the 35-year-old said that the CAA agent swooped in after he noticed a drunken friend of his was (unsuccessfully) hitting on Reese. Guess the stars really are just like us!

Reese said:

“This really drunk guy was hitting on me, making such an idiot of himself, yelling at me. He was like [slurring, scowling, pointing finger in her face], ‘You don’t know me.’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I know. I don’t know you!’ Jim came over and said, ‘Please excuse my friend. He’s just broken up with someone.’ And I remember thinking, his friend is such an ass, what a jerk. And that Jim was a really good friend, pulling him out of that situation.”